If they are not overwritten by new data, it's possible to recover accidentally deleted .jpg photos in Galaxy Android 5 smartphone with the help of Coolmuster Lab.Fone for Android. All deleted .jpg photos will be scanned out and recovered to computer via usb cable easily.

There are also apps you can use on a PC, which I'm not sure of right now.

Generally it is recommended to stop using the SD card that you deleted your files on to stop the data being overwritten by new data.

Good luck.

#3 JAy3001, Sep 11, 2017

Questions to radiosong:1. What is Coolmuster Lab.Fone for Android - is it an app or computer program? If Yes, what computer - Mac or Windows?

2. How to know whether files deleted are overwritten by new data?

Thanks for your replies!

#4 Clair17, Sep 11, 2017

If they were on the removable sd card then you can stick that in a card reader and use any file recovery software on a computer to recover them. No need for anything with "phone" in the name, freeware like Recuva (Windows) will do in this case.

If they are on internal storage, including the bit that pretends to be an sd card, it's harder. You can try some of the things above, I've never used any of them so can't make any recommendations.

How you know whether files have been overwritten is that they can't be recovered. That's it. Though obviously if the software can't recover anything at all that tells you that that piece of software can't do it rather than that the files have been overwritten.

As long as ther's not more than 2GB to recover it looks like the free version of that would do the job.

It might be worth trying that even if the Mac cannot read the card (assuming that that isn't because the card is encrypted or formatted with a filesystem that the Mac doesn't understand). I did once manage to recover data from a card using EaseUS software when it had suffered a master boot record failure and was unreadable by either Mac or PC.